Carnedd Llwellyn, Foel Fras, Foel Grach

Weather was a bit marginal, but we went ahead with Friday's visit to Snowdonia. Visibility down to 25m, horizontal rain, and 3 degrees C on top, just the way we like it for a late summer walk!

We found the easy sites, but the more challenging (some say impossible) sites eluded us.

We think we probably found the rock that Anson N5371 hit, which features in many books and websites. We aren't however so short of pics this week that we need a picture of a rock. We like to show genuine physical evidence. We are wreckhunters, not rockhunters.

We'll be back for the others after a bit more research.

Avro Anson Mk.I EF909 coded J3 or Avro Anson EG110?

Anson
Originally uploaded by wreckhunter

These definitely look like Anson bits on Foel Grach, but there is some controversy about which of the two Ansons which crashed near this location they come from. It might even be a consolidation pile of two wreck sites, as we have seen elsewhere. The engines described by others seem to have been removed by the local grave-robbers.

It is hard to know how to resolve the issue now, unless we can find a second site with identifiable bits nearby. The bits are too corroded to even carry any markings.

Since our visit, Alan and Mark from PDAAR claim to have found another site 1km distant which they believe is the crash site of EG110. There is a link to their report of the new site below. They have given us information which will probably to allow us to investigate their claim, which we will do in due course, probably when we have better information about the second "impossible" Anson wreck site location and N5371, to facilitate a twofer, or even a threefer.

Location: SH 69068 66625

More info(EF909)
More info(EG110)

Armstrong Vickers Wellington Mk.X HE466

Wellington
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2

Detail from one of the wreckage pools at the crash site of this Wellington on Foel Grach above Llyn Dulyn.

Location:SH 69197 66492

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